{"id":979,"date":"2010-10-28T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2010-10-28T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:03:26","slug":"pinball-fx-2-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/pinball-fx-2-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball FX 2 Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4141\/4945358668_cdba661e3f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Pinball FX 2 Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4141\/4945358668_cdba661e3f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/3186-pinball-fx-2\"><strong>Pinball FX 2<\/strong><\/a> hit Xbox Live Arcade this week and while I don&#8217;t generally play pinball video games I decided to check it out.\u00a0 I do like playing real pinball machines, but the video game counterparts have never held my interest. I was pleasantly surprised how much fun I had playing Pinball FX 2. The tables feel a little fast but once I got use to the speed of the game I was able to do pretty well.\u00a0 There are 4 new tables plus all the ones from Pinball FX import as well.\u00a0 The new tables have a lot going on, but after playing a few times I got the feel for each table.\u00a0 There is a demo for each table available so I&#8217;d recommend checking it out.\u00a0 I have a longer review on XBLA &amp; XBLIG Ratings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/3186-pinball-fx-2\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, but it basically comes down to they made a nice pinball game if you like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we&#8217;re giving a copy away on XBLA &amp; XBLIG Ratings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/blog\/3271-pinball-fx-2-giveaway-contest\">Details here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinball FX 2 hit Xbox Live Arcade this week and while I don&#8217;t generally play pinball video games I decided to check it out.\u00a0 I do like playing real pinball machines, but the video game counterparts have never held my interest. I was pleasantly surprised how much fun I had playing Pinball FX 2. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[175,7,5,30],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-pinball-fx-2","tag-review","tag-video-game","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}